Role of corticotropin-releasing factor and urocortin within the basolateral amygdala of rats in anxiety and panic responses

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 207-215

  Sajdyk, Tammy J ^a   Schober, Douglas A ^a   Gehlert, Donald R ^a   Shekhar, Anantha ^b  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b Pharmacol Toxicol Prog Med N   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticotropin releasing factor; Panic; Social interaction; Sodium lactate; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; UROCORTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; PANIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032997184     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00132-6     Document Type: Article

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